Ansiedade materna puerperal e risco para alterações no desenvolvimento infantil

Abstract

This research aimed at comparing the correlations between the absence or presence of risk indicators for child development and the presence or absence of maternal anxiety state, analyzing the relationship between difficulty in setting up the experience of motherhood and the presence of risk indicators for child development as well as interference or not socioeconomic, demographic, psychosocial and obstetrical. The methodology applied was to be quantitative descriptive character with casual comparison of the behavioral manifestations of the mother-baby interactive process. The sample consisted of 182 mother-infant dyads, those born at term or preterm, in a university hospital in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, whose babies have passed through newborn hearing screening in the period from March to June 2010. We performed a interview, applied to the Beck Anxiety Scale (BAI) and the protocol IRDls and observed the interaction of the dyad. Statistical analysis was given by applying non-parametric tests. The results have shown a positive correlation between the presence of risk to infant development and maternal state anxiety. Also it was found that the presence of difficulties in forming the experience of motherhood correlated statistically with the presence of risk to child development. However, the risk to children's development is multifactorial, and the need to check the baby and constitutional aspects of the relationship to the environment, especially the mother, to analyze and decide on the clinical referral.